MMA will bring undesirable gangsters to your city

Hey MMA fans! Guess what? Instead of being blood thirsty Romans at the Coliseum you are now Mobsters! 

Oh, how I wish I were kidding.

Check out this propaganda article from EdmontonSun.com,

VANCOUVER -- The potential for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event to draw undesirable gangsters to downtown Vancouver is real, say police.

"It's a fact," said Sgt. Bill Whalen, spokesman for the combined forces special enforcement unit. "We've seen that UFC events attract some ... gang or organized crime members. It's popular with them."

Extreme fighting is equally popular with law-abiding citizens, Whalen added.

The difference, said Irwin Cohen, a criminologist at the University of the Fraser Valley, is the demographics for mixed martial arts fans overlaps considerably with young men involved in organized crime.

"You could make the argument ... in terms of a broader audience it may appeal to that classic 14- to 22-year-old male, aggressive, and some of that does fit into the organized crime or gang profile as well."

No numbers, no statistics, no proof just complete and total bull shit. 

On the positive side, at least they aren't talking about "human cockfighting" or "human dogfighting" or any other form of barbaric animal death sport but seriously, is this the 1920's?

Using this logic, and I use the word logic begrudgingly, then you wouldn't want baseball in your city because John Dillinger liked it. 

Really what the police just said is the equivalent of this, "Hip hop is associated with gang culture so we don't want a Fifty-Cent concert in our city because it will bring the Bloods and Crips into the city."

I feel like I am dealing with the birthers. 

Editors note: reinserted VANCOUVER in quote